Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of racism were recorded in each year from 2015 to 2020; and how many of those incidents resulted in a prosecution.

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics annually on the number of racially motivated hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.

The latest ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin contains the number of racially motivated hate crimes in Table 2 and is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019

Data on prosecutions are published by the Ministry of Justice. These data include outcomes for ‘racially or religiously aggravated’ offences only as it is not possible to separately identify other hate crimes which are prosecuted under the specific offence in legislation that they fall under. The latest data can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2019